July 15, 1848

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Large Locomotive

The Southern Magnetic Telegraph

John Little John

Items of Niagara Suspension Bridge

Michigan Central Railroad

Steam Hammer Engine

Latest Foreign News

The Steamer United States

The Harvest in France

Paper Making

New Flour

Napoleon's Jailor

Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister

Subterranean Stream

A Splendid Sewer

Emigration from Great Britain

Charges against the Commissioner of Patents

A Knotty Question

A Feat

Mammoth Bones

Increased Commerce

Greasing Carriage Wheels

Early Harvest

Stopped Work

Caution to House Keepers

Power of Water

Atmospheric Pressure

A Compliment to the Ladies

Magnificent View

Saving of Fuel in Gas Works

A Freak of Lightning

Laying to on the Erie Canal

Infringement of a Patent

Holden's Dollar Magazine

Death from Tobacco

Watch Chain

Beautiful Ornithological Display

Man's Friends

Gases

The Past and the Present

A Hanging Bridge

Coal for Fuel in Western Steamboats

Thrashing by Music

Cunning of the Fox

New Surveying Instrument

New Process for Preserving Wood

New Carding Machine

Trimming Books

Separating the Hull of Wheat

Rivet Machines

Trigonometrical Bevil and Rule

Glass Water Pipes

New Electric Patent

Universal Orrery Globe

Grain Separators

Carving by Machinery

New Counting Machine and Indicator

Grain Driers

Mechanics

Something of a Curiosity

Scientific American--Bound Volumes

Bentz's Unbranning Machine

Burning of a Railway Bridge

Congress and Patent Rights

The Iron Mines of Nova Seotia

Good Humor

The Clasp Coupling Joint

Arts, Manufactures and Machinery

Foreign Correspondence

Lamartine&s Remembrance of His Youth

Migration of Eels

The Indian and his Famishing Wife

Sickness

Patent Agency

To Correspondents

Water Pressure

Some Properties of Carbon

Substitute for Glass for Electrical Machines

Cream

Railway and Telegraph

Beautiful Gutta Percha Composition

Bronzing Different Metals

Horizontal and Perpendicular Motion

The Scientific American

Double Gilliflowers

Curious Effect of Violet Rays upon the Electric Telegraph

Obtaining White Outlines from any Kind of Paper

Royal Blue

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